Victorious Secret - WEEK 6
“Porn Sunday”
February 28th, 2010
Gary Baldus – Lead Pastor

Genesis 2:25- The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

PORNOGRAPHY:
1) The depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement. 2) The depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5- “It is God's will…that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

PORN SUNDAY FACT #1: PORNOGRAPHY _________________ YOUR WORLD.

Ephesians 4:19- Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

Steve Hirsch- “Not only does hardcore porn not shock people today, but I think they want more, harder and harder and harder and harder.”

PORN SUNDAY FACT #2: PORNOGRAPHY GIVES THE _________ OF INTIMACY.

Dr. Al Mohler- “Men are tempted to give themselves to pornography. Woman are tempted to commit pornography”

PORN SUNDAY FACT #3: PORNOGRAPHY RUINS ________________________.

• The average age that children are exposed to porn is 8 years old.

• Before the Internet, the average age was 15 years old.

• The largest consumers of Internet pornography are children between 12-17 years old.

Matthew 18:6- “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”

• There are 100,000 illegal child porn web sites

• $3 billion a year is spent on child porn

Colossians 3:5- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 5:3- But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.

3 STEPS TO RECOVERY:

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John 10:10- “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

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Proverbs 13:20- He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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THIS WEEK’S WORSHIP PLAYLIST

1. YOUR GRACE IS ENOUGH 2. SONG OF HOPE
3. I COULD SING OF YOUR LOVE FOREVER 4. HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD 5. SLOW FADE

NEXT SUNDAY- “MARCH MADNESS” KICKS OFF